KRS 164.0053: Prohibited appointments -- Ineligibility to serve on council or governing

board -- Conflicts of interest.

(1) No appointing authority shall appoint himself or his spouse, or the Governor or his

spouse, to a governing board of a postsecondary institution created pursuant to KRS

164.131, 164.321, or 164.821, or to the Council on Postsecondary Education

created pursuant to KRS 164.011.

(2) No full -time employee of a public institution of postsecondary education shall be

eligible to serve on the Council o n Postsecondary Education or on the governing

board of another institution of postsecondary education, except the community and

technical college faculty and nonteaching personnel serving on the board of regents

for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, and except the faculty

member appointed under KRS 164.011(3).

(3) No postsecondary institution shall award an honorary degree to a sitting governor.

(4) All governing board members created pursuant to KRS 164.131, 164.321, and

164.821 and the members of the Council on Postsecondary Education shall have no

conflict of interest pursuant to KRS 45A.340, except for compensation paid to

faculty, staff, or student members.